The Lincoln Park football team ended its 66-game losing streak with a 34-20 win over Taylor Kennedy on Friday night. (Lincoln Park Railsplitters Football Facebook page)

Lincoln Park football coach Jamie Grignon saw one of the most beautiful things he has ever seen on football field on Friday night.

For the first time since Sept. 1, 2006, the Lincoln Park football team celebrated a victory as the Railsplitters' 34-20 road win over Taylor Kennedy ended a 66-game losing streak, the longest in state history.

"The (public announcer), they were saying ,'Please don't come on the field,'" Grignon said. "The athletic director finally let the fans come on and it was just a wave of orange and blue coming onto the field. People are hugging, crying, cheering and clapping.

"It was a beautiful sight."

No more being afraid of wear a Railsplitters football shirt in public. No more having to answer the questions about when or if the team will ever win again. No more having to answer if they really are that bad.

No more losing streak.

"Words can't really express what it felt like to get that win, for coaches and players," Grignon said. "But I really felt the relief from the players ... I just kept saying, 'Hey, if you just stay the course and keep working hard, keep lifting weights during the season, keep conditioning and pay attention to the coaches, good things are going to happen.'"

If there was ever a team Lincoln Park wanted to end its streak against, it would have been Taylor Kennedy. Last year, Kennedy spoiled Lincoln Park's hope with a 7-3 win, as Kennedy blocked a punt and returned it for a touchdown with 4:24 left in the game. In 2011, Kennedy also got a slim 18-13 win.

"It was a tough game last year," Grignon said. "It was a tough game the year before that too. I just think the difference was we got better every week offensively and defensively with special teams. We were ready to win a game.

"The players were focused as they never were before. It was time to win that game on Friday night."

Despite victory being a foreign feeling to the team and the school, moving forward from is going to be business as usual.

"The first thing in practice today, we're going to start watching film on Allen Park," Grignon said in looking forward to its next opponent on Friday. "They got their 48 hours of happy time and now it is back to work. The next step in rebuilding this program is to say, 'OK, we got a big win, now let's go on from it. Let's see how we're going to react.'"

The 80th team in Lincoln Park history, this year's team has left its mark in school history no matter what happens the rest of the season, ending an era that, hopefully, will never be close to repeating itself ever again.

"People are going to remember team 80," Grignon said. "After every game we played, the kids never gave up."